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William McKnight

Designing Data

How a Pharmacy Benefit Management Firm Modernized its Data Architecture Around Microservices and Real-Time Integration

Table of Contents

  1. Summary
  2. Set Up
  3. About William McKnight

1. Summary

The proliferation of data creates a lot of risk for many organizations, especially in healthcare organizations where privacy, timeliness, and safety are paramount. A pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company faced the risk of being overwhelmed by these demands and launched a strategic effort to build out a data platform and streaming data engine aligned around a microservices architecture. This report explores the challenges and lessons encountered in the effort.